Meanwhile, the project's backer, Puppet Labs, is getting its own enhancement: an influx of new cash courtesy of a successful financing round. DevX has the story.

It's starting off to be a good week for open source configuration management vendor Puppet Labs. The startup announced today that it has raised an additional $5 million in venture funding, bringing total funding to $7 million to date. Those new funds come on the same day that a major new release of the open source Puppet framework is being made generally available.

Version 2.6 of Puppet -- a widely used open source framework that provides administrators with the ability to manage system configuration and provisioning -- adds new capabilities to the configuration management framework including a new event model, better integration via REST and preliminary support for Windows.

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